The winners of the 2018 Climate and Clean Air Awards were announced at a special ceremony during the Global Climate Action Summit. At a gala ceremony at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, a group of real climate heroes were honoured with Climate and Clean Air...

The New American Road Trip is an 11-day, more than 2,900-mile journey in an electric vehicle from San Francisco to New York’s 10th Climate Week and the One Planet Summit. Its purpose is to deliver the Call to Global Climate Action issued from the Global Climate Action...

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 14, 2018 – Today, nine of the U.S.’s most respected law firms announced a groundbreaking initiative to deliver free legal services worth $15 million by 2020 to advance sustainability across the globe. The first-of-its-kind initiative, Lawyers for a...

At the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco today, the Global Environment Facility (GEF) announced a half billion US dollar financial commitment in new grant funds for food, land use, and restoration projects. Speaking at the high-level dialogue on Land...

We the Ministers and Partners of the Climate and Clean Air Coalition, recognizing the need to ACT now to achieve the temperature goal of Paris Agreement, and to support sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty; conscious that that the path we choose to...

APG has not made investments in coal-fired power plants in the last decade and will not invest in any new coal-related infrastructure going forward. San Francisco, September 13th 2018: As a leading investor of pension capital, APG regards climate change as a systemic...

SAN FRANCISCO– September 13th 2018– The Innovations arm of the California Clean Energy Fund announced that it is investing $3 million in cKers Finance’s Sustainable Energy Bond issuance for India. These bonds are a new and innovative instrument that allow impact...

NEW YORK –Mayor Bill de Blasio, Comptroller Stringer, and other trustees of New York City’s pension funds today announced a new goal to double the investments of the NYC Funds in climate change solutions to $4 billion or 2% of the City’s $195 billion pension portfolio...

Action: The Time to Act is Now Kari C. Nadeau, MD, PhD Director of the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy & Asthma Research at Stanford University In my 30 years as a physician and scientist working with allergies and asthma, I have seen the rates and severity of...

Source Oliver Wyman Thanks to the efforts of a coalition of 16 global banks convened by the UN Environment Finance Initiative, the banking industry has made progress on the arduous task of assessing the risks and opportunities associated with climate change....

Washington Post September 12, 2018 Climate change is here now, and it’s time to urgently ask ourselves: What kind of future do we want to work toward? The air we breathe is key to answering this question. Global warming is not just manifesting in devastating fires,...

Blog provided by Rebecca Pass Philipsborn, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Emory University School of Medicine, Emory Global Health Institute Climate-driven environmental changes are already affecting the health of children around the world. With their rapid...

THE SECRETARY-GENERAL — REMARKS ON CLIMATE CHANGE [as delivered] New York, 10 September 2018 Dear friends of planet Earth, Thank you for coming to the UN Headquarters today. I have asked you here to sound the alarm. Climate change is the defining issue of our...

By Brenden Millstein, CEO and Co-Founder, Carbon Lighthouse There’s a longstanding narrative that capitalists and environmentalists can’t be friends — that you can only take climate action by sacrificing jobs and growth. This is the story President Donald Trump...

BRINK News September 10, 2018 When we think about solutions to climate change, we often start by focusing on reducing the negative. After all, what can power plants, vehicles, and industrial producers do beyond emitting less greenhouse gas?… [read...

The Today Show August 30, 2018 Venice, Italy, is an alluring destination for many, but ever-growing tourism and other factors are combining to alter the face of the iconic spot. NBC’s Keir Simmons uncovers aspects of the crumbling city that many tourists aren’t...